Feb242015

The latest update to Adobe Dreamweaver CC includes a rich set of tutorials available directly inside the app. Not only are the tutorials aesthetically engaging, they provide meaningful, relevant content for established and aspiring web designers.

Figure 1. Click the Get files button to download the project files for a tutorial.

Learn web design directly inside Dreamweaver CC

A lot time went into planning content geared towards new web designers wanting to get familiar with the basics of web development, including learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, directly inside Dreamweaver. Access these tutorials from the Getting Started tab within the welcome screen (Figure 1).

These tutorials are broken down into isolated topics consisting of between two and ten steps. Coupled with downloadable starter files they allow you to focus on the topic at hand and accomplish the tasks quickly with a high guarantee of success.

The Getting Started series

This group of tutorials helps new designers learn the fundamentals of web design. It covers the phases of a web design project beginning with the planning stages all the way through publishing to the web (click the thumbnails below to view the series).

Figure 2. Learn custom tips and tricks from the Key Techniques tab.

Custom tips and techniques

Once you have the fundamentals down, check out the Tips & Techniques tab for some advanced topics and web design extras such as how to center a website, create CSS-based navigation menus, build a portfolio gallery, and more (Figure 2).

Our users requested many of these topics, so we’d love to hear directly from you about any additional topics that you would find helpful. Please fill out our survey and let us know what you think.

Tour of new features

The Dreamweaver team has done a lot of work over the years to add features to help web designers. You can now pull web design code and assets directly from Photoshop comps, start a web project from responsive starter templates, enhance your designs with rich typography, and more. To see the history of these new features and how to use them, visit the New Features tab in the Dreamweaver welcome screen (Figure 3).

Figure 3. The New Features tab includes tutorials on how to use the features added to current and past versions.

Check daily for new content!

Be sure to update to the latest version of Dreamweaver CC and check often; new tutorials will be available on a daily basis. Also, check out our Learn & Support page for the full offering of tutorials, help topics, and support resources.

Feb32015

At the beginning of the year, Adobe worldwide design evangelist Terry White made a promise to himself to deliver a new Adobe Creative Cloud tutorial each day during the month of January.

Beginning January 2, Terry released a new video each day… for 30 days. With his New Year’s resolution behind him, he had this to say:

I’m happy to say that my 30 Days of Creative Cloud Tutorials are done and have been very well received! At last count the videos have had over 80,000 views and climbing. I also received lots of direct feedback on Twitter and Facebook. Most of the tutorials focused on the questions I get every day, over and over again. I also took the liberty of working in mobile workflows wherever I could. Of course I’ll continue to do more throughout the year and cover new features as they’re added to Creative Cloud. In the meantime, check out what you’ve missed here in this YouTube Playlist featuring all 30 videos:

Jan292015

Get a headstart on projects with Creative Cloud Market and ensure that you and your team can access your favorite assets anytime, anywhere with Creative Cloud Libraries.

Creative Cloud Market

Creative Cloud Market is a collection of professionally crafted and curated vector graphics, icons, patterns, UI kits, brushes, and more from the best creatives on Behance. Already there are thousands of assets available on Market and the number grows with each passing day. With Creative Cloud paid subscription (except the photography plan), you are entitled to download up to 500 free, unique, ready-to-use, and royalty free assets every month. Once downloaded, you can use them freely in your creative projects, and modify or build upon them according to your needs.

Access Market

Creative Cloud for desktop app is a gateway to Creative Cloud Market. Using Creative Cloud for desktop, you can browse, search, sort, or download Market assets.

To access Market from Creative Cloud for desktop, choose Assets > Market. Then search assets by specifying a keyword, category, tag, or creator in the search box. You can further refine or sort results from the options available in the All Categories dropdown.

Download assets from Market

To download an asset, click the asset thumbnail, click Download, and choose an existing Creative Cloud library or create a new library where the asset will be downloaded. Downloaded assets are also saved in the Market Downloads folder in your main Creative Cloud Files folder.

In addition to the information like the asset name and the creator, the asset page also shows tags applied to the asset. You can click any tag, to search for other assets that are tagged with the same keywords, to find related and similar assets. For example, clicking the “pen” tag in the above example will search and display other assets tagged with pen.

Downloaded assets are now available for use across all desktop and mobile apps and devices. Note: Creative Cloud for desktop must be running for downloaded assets to sync and become available for use. You can view downloaded assets in Creative Cloud for desktop by clicking the dropdown menu next to Market and selecting Downloaded under the Sort category.

Share assets and collaborate using Creative Cloud Libraries

While you can access downloaded Market assets in all apps and on all devices, in some situations you may want to share assets with your team, so that everybody is in sync. You can achieve this by sharing the Creative Cloud Libraries where assets are downloaded. It allows you to collaborate while maintaining consistency in your designs.

Jan222015

Just think… In the time it takes you to brush your teeth you can learn how to make your photos even more beautiful.

If you’re new to photography and want to get started fixing and enhancing your photos, download trial versions of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Lightroom mobile, and Adobe Photoshop CC—Adobe products you get with the Creative Cloud Photography plan. If you’re already a Photography plan member, or have just downloaded the trial versions, check out this new batch of two- and three-minute tutorials, to jumpstart your photography.

With the recent release of Adobe Shape, you can now take a photo and automatically convert it into a vector drawing. A live demonstration of Adobe Shape at Adobe MAX 2014. Cue up at 6:40 or watch the whole thing to see all of this year’s new Adobe mobile features and apps.

Ready to turn a photo into a vector image? We’ve put together this tutorial to help you Get started with Shape.

Create color themes based on images captured on your mobile device with Adobe Color (the app formerly known as Adobe Kuler) and use them in your Creative Cloud desktop and mobile apps. Get started with Adobe Color.

Our fine-tip, pressure-sensitive pen and its partner device, a digital ruler for drawing precise shapes and lines work seamlessly with Line, Sketch, and Draw. Get started with Adobe Ink and Slide.

What’s next?

If you’re curious about what the future holds for Creative Cloud mobile and desktop apps and features, check out The Creative Magic of MAX 2014 Sneaks. It was a real crowd-pleaser at this year’s Adobe MAX Creativity Conference.

Now step away from the desk and get some work done! And, have fun while you’re at it. Then, share what you create with our mobile apps on Behance.

Oct292014

Among all the new mobile apps and desktop product updates released on October 6, Adobe Premiere Clip stands out for me as a fun app that can be used to make something out of all the videos and photos you’ve already got on your iPhone or iPad—or both, actually, by syncing your project across devices and tapping into each device’s camera roll.

My editorial focus on the Creative Cloud Learn team is our digital video and audio tools. Until recently, I hadn’t seen any good mobile apps for making creative use of the videos and photos on my phone. There’s something compelling about making a movie soon after having shot some video at a family event or while traveling, and then sharing that edited movie with others or posting it to YouTube. Premiere Clip makes that task fun.

Before Premiere Clip was launched at Adobe MAX 2014, I had recorded a couple of tutorials: Create and edit video with Premiere Clip and Refine a Premiere Clip video in Premiere Pro. For those demos, I went downtown (in San Francisco) and shot some relatively random videos of cable cars, which I then assembled into a movie using my iPhone and iPad. It was fun but somewhat familiar terrain for me. However, I recently used Premiere Clip “in the wild.”

While attending MAX, I went to a large outdoor party where there was lots of food, playfully interactive outlets for spontaneous creativity, and a concert by Kings of Leon. It occurred to me that I should record the event—and put Premiere Clip to the test.

I shot the following movie entirely with my iPhone 5 and edited it in Premiere Clip while flying back from Los Angeles. Before considering it ready for public consumption, I synced the project with my Creative Cloud profile and then imported it into Adobe Premiere Pro CC, where I did some minor trimming and audio adjusting.

Playing around with Premiere Clip is a lot of fun—and perhaps gives some meaning to all those times you hold up your phone and shoot something that seems important at the time but, you realize later, it’s too difficult to do anything with it.

Let me know in the tutorials’ feedback links what you think of Premiere Clip, and how you think it could help you with either personal, or professional, video projects.

Oct92014

At Adobe MAX 2014 the Creative Cloud Learn team launched more than 40 new tutorials to help members learn new features and updated techniques.

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Hi everyone!

It’s been a big week for the Creative Cloud Learn team. Many of us were lucky enough to be at MAX, where we were able to meet many of our customers, both in labs and at the Adobe Booth in the Pavilion. Additionally, on Monday, Adobe released major updates to Creative Cloud’s desktop apps along with new mobile apps. All of these new features are covered in over 40 new tutorials. Some of the highlights:

We also deployed over 60 tutorials to support Photoshop CC’s new Welcome screen. After upgrading, start Photoshop CC and take a few minutes to navigate through this panel that presents videos based on the features you use. I think you’ll like what you see.

Many, many people put in a lot of hours and hard work on this and I want to take a minute to acknowledge them:

I’d like to thank all of our presenters, in particular, Matt Pizzi, Dan Carr, Laura Shoe, Curt Fukuda, and the folks at Infinite Skills. They all put in extra effort to make sure we got things right.

Oct12014

Find the right tutorial. Faster.

We’ve got almost 1,000 Creative Cloud app tutorials. Until now, they’ve been difficult to find. This summer, the Learn team built a completely new tutorial search experience to help you get what you need faster. Today we’re excited to announce a complete redesign of tutorial search.

Search that’s easy to get to from every tutorial page

Our search results have been totally redesigned to help you decide which tutorial works the best for you. On the results page you’ll find a whole new look.

Each search result includes:

Tutorial description

Tutorial type (video, text, hands-on, game)

Duration (length of the tutorial or time to complete a hands-on project)

Apps covered

User level

There are also new filters to refine searches:

App search defaults. Based on the product page you came from; apps can be added, changed, or removed.

New features. Looking for recent app changes? Filter for the latest updates.

Level. Look for tutorials that match your experience.

What if you can’t find what you’re looking for?

Don’t despair. This new search index only includes the tutorials. We’ve got thousands of help and troubleshooting articles in our main search index. If tutorials aren’t the Learn/Help content you’re looking for, there’s always the ability to access global search from the main Learn & Support page.

We plan to expand this new experience in the future to include all Learn & Support content. In the meantime, let us know what you like, what you don’t like, and what you think.

Sep162014

One of the best things about Creative Cloud is that members have access to new product features as soon as they’re developed. Adobe’s Creative Cloud Learn team makes sure Creative Cloud members have the knowledge they need to use them.

The team recently published a host of new hands-on tutorials and videos aimed at helping both novice and experienced web designers get the most out of the recently-released features in Adobe Dreamweaver CC. So there’s no reason not to start using the new features in Dreamweaver CC:

How to use CSS in Dreamweaver
In this hands-on tutorial, learn the basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and what tools are available in Dreamweaver CC for applying CSS to add style to web pages.